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Colburn named U.'s next vice president for communications and public affairs

Colburn named U.'s next vice president for communications and public affairs

Isabel Ting

Colburn worked as the assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Defense, chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, national communications director of the 2012 Obama for America campaign, assistant secretary for public affairs for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and director of external affairs for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He now serves as the primary communications strategist, manager, and spokesperson for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a philanthropic organization founded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and pediatrician and educator Dr. Priscilla Chan that aims to promote equal opportunit

NEWS | 11/22/2017

Asian American Studies program to be created by September 2018

Rebecca Ngu

University faculty are working to create an Asian American Studies certificate program by September 2018. The creation of the program will be the culmination of the work of University students, alumni, and faculty who have researched, petitioned, protested, negotiated, and advocated for the creation of an Asian American Studies program for nearly 30 years.

NEWS | 11/20/2017

Book Review: I Hear My People Singing

Book Review: I Hear My People Singing

Benjamin Ball

Ultimately, I Hear My People Singing presents the deep-rooted racism that did and still does exist in America. The focus, however, is always on the people. Watterson presents the Witherspoon community and its residents as vital to Princeton’s past history and present story today.

NEWS | 11/20/2017

Graduate and undergraduate students frustrated with U. handling of sexual harassment case

Rose Gilbert, Ivy Truong, and Linh Nguyen

Dozens of graduate students, undergraduates, and faculty members gathered on Monday, Nov. 20 in Maeder Hall to discuss a petition demanding that the University elevate its disciplinary action against Sergio Verdú, a Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering, who was found guilty of sexual harassment in a Title IX investigation earlier this summer. Over 650 undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni have signed the petition.

NEWS | 11/20/2017

Philosophy professor named new dean of the graduate school

Benjamin Ball

The Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy and alum of the graduate college herself, Leslie was appointed by President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 and the Board of Trustees at their Nov. 17 meeting. A search committee composed of faculty members and graduate students proposed her selection.

NEWS | 11/20/2017

Slavery symposium panels discuss Southern legacy at U.

Isabel Ting

“I think universities miss the point when they hide the light,” said Prairie View A&M University Interim President Ruth Simmons. “Hiding the light means we become corrupt and scheming like other institutions, [and that is] very harmful to us as institutions. There are intruders that want to uncloak the dishonesty of the University. Our best defense is to do it in the light and with the utmost integrity because others will uncloak that if we don’t.”

NEWS | 11/20/2017

USG discusses Puerto Rico resolution, Verdú statement

Jacob Gerrish

“There is just a huge disparity in power between a Ph.D. student and advisor that can affect you really for the rest of your professional career,” Patel said.

NEWS | 11/20/2017

Morrison delivers Princeton and Slavery Symposium keynote address

Isabel Ting

Through her own research, Morrison concluded that, while slavery in all civilizations was inevitable due to its lucrative nature, what was not inevitable was the “powerful, bloody social movement” against abolition, as seen from the bloodied attacks on abolitionists by the University’s students to the journeys of the University’s founders, trustees, and nine presidents who owned slaves. Morrison compared navigating between slavery and the University’s history to “navigating between a swamp and an iceberg.”

NEWS | 11/19/2017

Foner, Allen panel discusses Princeton's slavery legacy

Samvida Venkatesh

Eric Foner, a history professor at Columbia, noted that Princeton’s commemoration of such a history in the Princeton and Slavery Project was truly in the nation’s service, encouraging the real historical practice of critical inquiry in a time when “fake history is emanating from the highest offices in the land.”

NEWS | 11/19/2017

Thomas wins 2018 Rhodes Scholarship

Hannah Wang

Jordan Thomas ’18 was one of 32 students awarded the prestigious 2018 Rhodes Scholarship, as announced by the Office of the American Secretary of the Rhodes Trust.

NEWS | 11/19/2017

Racist, anti-Semitic, sexual messages appear in Princeton middle school Google Sheet

Ivy Truong

A few days after John Witherspoon Middle School’s eighth grade class traveled to the National Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., “racist, anti-Semitic, and sexual messages” appeared on a Google spreadsheet originally intended for an eighth grade science lab.

NEWS | 11/16/2017

Former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Fayyad lectures on vision for Palestinian future

Jacob Gerrish

“To those concerned by the creeping one-state reality, let me say I don’t see one,” economist and politician Salam Fayyad said. “Rather, I see what should be of even more concern, namely the creeping trouble of a four-state reality.”

NEWS | 11/16/2017

New Yorker writer Als and poet Nguyen read selections from their work

Rebecca Ngu

Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New Yorker writer Hilton Als and poet Hoa Nguyen read selections from their work at the Lewis Arts complex at the University on Nov. 15. Als and Nguyen were introduced by poets Tracy K. Smith — the 2017 U.S. Poet Laureate — and Michael Dickman, respectively.

NEWS | 11/16/2017

House passes tax bill, U. and other institutions object to higher ed provisions

Mallory Williamson

The House tax bill contains several provisions to which colleges and universities object, including the removal of tax deductions for student loan interest. The bill would make graduate student teaching and research income taxable, and would tax endowments of private universities with at least 500 students and where the value of the school’s endowment is more than $250,000 per student, an elite group which includes the University.

NEWS | 11/16/2017

Former White House deputy assistant talks ACA survival in the Trump era

Amy Abdalla

“Because this law is no longer just a pile of paper, a bill, it really is integrated into the fabric of our health care system, so it becomes much more difficult for Congress to try to make that change,” Jeanne Lambrew, former deputy assistant for health policy to President Obama.

NEWS | 11/16/2017

Princeton Survey Research Center celebrates 25th anniversary

Kevin McElwee

The Center is celebrating its 25th anniversary this week. Founded in 1992, this institution has helped the University’s students and faculty conduct countless polls. Although the Center’s main focus is graduate and undergraduate research, dozens of faculty members have taken advantage of its resources. Over the past quarter of a century, the Center has helped publish five books and 48 journal entries, which have been cited approximately 20,000 times.

NEWS | 11/16/2017

First-year orientation fosters bonding among students

First-year orientation fosters bonding among students

Regina Lankenau and Mallory Williamson

“OA was literal hell during the trip, but afterwards I am extremely glad I went. I’d do it again in a heartbeat,” commented Noah Schochet ’21. “It’s one of those ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ situations.”

NEWS | 11/16/2017

Sackler family donations to U. funded by OxyContin sales

Allie Spensley

“I understand that it's tricky when it comes to institutions like museums where the person [a gallery] is named after gave the money to build that wing of the museum,” said Beth Wang ’18. “ Ideally it should be changed, but the acknowledgement that the only reason the room is there is because of this really problematic person makes it less easy to take the name away.”

NEWS | 11/16/2017

Pink Label zines project seeks to bring art to everyone

Rebecca Ngu

Lin has a long and sentimental relationship with objects. Initially entering college as a computer science major due to family pressure, Lin realized she wanted to dedicate her life to creating material art after discovering a PVC pipe in a Home Depot her sophomore year. She was enamored by its form -- smallish and shaped like an elbow -- and decided to buy it.

NEWS | 11/14/2017

New spring courses offer exciting opportunities for academic exploration

Ivy Truong

Over 150 new courses will be offered in the the spring, according to the course offerings released on Nov. 9. According to the list provided by the Office of the Registrar, some of these new classes include REL 292: Hip Hop, Reggae and Religion, HIS 476/MED 476: The Vikings: History and Archaeology, and ENG 394/GSS 398: Ghosts, Zombies and Liminal Creatures in Film, Literature and Photography.

NEWS | 11/14/2017

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